Reading Rush TBR

After my successful Bibliothon, I decided to do the Reading Rush. It’s cool how they have their own website where you can earn badges for accomplishing the challenges, tracked the pages that you read for that day and also meet new bookish friends.

Reading Rush is formerly known as Booktubeathon. The readathon will start from July 22 to July 28, 2019 which is tomorrow on my timezone. Again I am doing this readathon in my own timezone.

Subscribe to their YouTube channel to see the reading challenges and the video challenges if you wanted to join. (Click here to go to their profile.)

There are 7 Challenges for this round:

1. Book with Purple on the cover
2. Read a book in the same spot the entire time
3. Read a book that you meant to read last year
4. Read an author’s first book
5. Read a book featuring a non-human character
6. Pick a book with 5 or more words in the title
7. Read & watch a book to movie adaptation

And also it is not an actual challenge to read 7 books in a week but you can get a badge if you managed to do that.

So without further ado, here are my TBR for this year’s Reading Rush.

The Final Bibliothon Wrap-Up

It is finally done. I feel so proud of myself for this Final Bibliothon. Out of the 9 Reading Challenges, I managed to finish 7 challenges! I consider that as a big success. And I also managed to read 6 books in a week. WHO AM I? I used to read a book for a week or more lately but now? 6 books?? I used to read like that back in High School!

1. Read the group book (Aurora Rising) – ❌
2. Adult Book – ✔
3. Graphic Novel – ✔
4. A book from an author you’ve never read before – ✔
5. A book based on its cover – ✔
6. Free choice/wild card – ✔
7. Read a book you were really excited for, but never picked up – ✔
8. Read a predicted 5-star reads – ✔
9. Read one of the hosts’ 5-star reads – ❌

The Towering Sky by Katharine McGee

RATING: 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑

Published: August 28, 2018

Publisher: HarperCollins

Format: Hardcover

Pages: 464

 

 

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“There aren’t any happy endings in real life, because there aren’t any endings in life, only moments of change… There’s always another adventure, another challenge, another opportunity to find happiness or chase it away.”

 

SYNOPSIS:

Welcome back to New York, 2119. A skyscraper city, fueled by impossible dreams, where the lives of five teenagers have become intertwined in ways that no one could have imagined.

Leda just wants to move on from what happened in Dubai. Until a new investigation forces her to seek help—from the person she’s spent all year trying to forget.

Rylin is back in her old life, reunited with an old flame. But when she starts seeing Cord again, she finds herself torn: between two worlds, and two very different boys.

Calliope feels trapped, playing a long con that costs more than she bargained for. What happens when all her lies catch up with her?

Watt is still desperately in love with Leda. He’ll do anything to win her back—even dig up secrets that are better left buried.

And now that Avery is home from England—with a new boyfriend, Max—her life seems more picture-perfect than ever. So why does she feel like she would rather be anything but perfect?

In this breathtaking finale to The Thousandth Floor trilogy, Katharine McGee returns to her vision of 22nd-century New York: a world of startling glamour, dazzling technology, and unthinkable secrets. After all, when you have everything… you have everything to lose.

The Dazzling Heights by Katharine McGee

RATING: 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕

Published: August 29, 2017

Publisher: HarperCollins

Format: Hardcover

Pages: 422

 

 

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“There are good parts and bad parts, as with most things in life. But I think you’ll find that after a time, the good outweighs the bad.”

 

SYNOPSIS:

All that glitters is not gold.

New York City, 2118. Manhattan is home to a thousand-story supertower, a breathtaking marvel that touches the sky. But amid high-tech luxury and futuristic glamour, five teenagers are keeping dangerous secrets…

Leda is haunted by memories of what happened on the worst night of her life. She’ll do anything to make sure the truth stays hidden—even if it means trusting her enemy.

Watt just wants to put everything behind him…until Leda forces him to start hacking again. Will he do what it takes to be free of her for good?

When Rylin wins a scholarship to an upper-floor school, her life transforms overnight. But being there also means seeing the boy whose heart she broke, and who broke hers in return.

Avery is tormented by her love for the one person in the world she can never have. She’s desperate to be with him…no matter the cost.

And then there’s Calliope, the mysterious, bohemian beauty who arrives in New York determined to cause a stir. And she knows exactly where to begin.

But unbeknownst to them all, someone is watching their every move, someone with revenge in mind. After all, in a world of such dazzling heights, just one wrong step can mean a devastating fall.

The Final Bibliothon TBR

Ever since I’ve been a fan of bookTube, I have always seen Bibliothon circulating around YouTube but I never succeed in it. I think I tried joining once but I never attempted after that. But now that it is their final bibliothon, of course I am joining.

The Final Bibliothon runs from July 11 to 19. I don’t know if we will be following a certain time zone but I decided to do this in my own time zone.

There are 9 challenges for this final bibliothon and you are only allowed to use one book for two prompts; so if any of you who wants to join, here it is:

1. Read the group book (Aurora Rising)
2. Adult Book
3. Graphic Novel
4. A book from an author you’ve never read before
5. A book based on its cover
6. Free choice/wild card
7. Read a book you were really excited for, but never picked up
8. Read a predicted 5-star reads
9. Read one of the hosts’ 5-star reads

For the last challenge, it is listed in the challenges video for bibliothon so check it out here: Reading Challenges.

So now that all is said and done, let’s get into the TBR.

 

Down Among The Rabbit Hole

Where have I been? I feel like I am Alice and I just stepped out of the rabbit hole!

I am well aware that I am not updated with new series and new books that are coming out lately. But that’s because I made a resolution to myself that I need to finish all the completed series that I have on my shelf before diving into a new one; it’s because I may not finish the series if I did not push myself to read up to the last book.

But I have been watching BookTube A LOT. I’ve developed a habit lately of watching a video after I finish a chapter or two. But never, I mean NEVER have I heard ANYTHING about these books! Am I watching and following the wrong people? But…
THE HUNGER GAMES TRILOGY GETTING ANOTHER NOVEL AND THE LEGEND TRILOGY IS NO LONGER A TRILOGY BECAUSE THERE WILL BE A 4TH AND FINAL BOOK.

Semi-Annual Reading Wrap-Up

Half of the year is already over and I haven’t posted a wrap-up since; so I decided to do a semi-annual wrap up instead. So far, I’ve read 11 books. And I will list them all down below. I will also link the book review if I have one so be sure to check it out.

Now, let’s proceed to the wrap-up.